[Freeipa-devel] Install on RHEL5 - pointers please

[Alex Davies]

Many thanks Simon. I guess its going to be easier to use Fedora then :)

Alex

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Simo Sorce <ssorce at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
>  On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 16:49 +0200, Alex Davies wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > I have attempted to install freeIPA on a RHEL5 machine, using FC7
>  > RPMs. This fails with a dependency failure. My steps are as follows:
>  >
>  > 1) Fully update (yum -y update) a clean install of RHEL5, i386
>  >
>  > 2) Add fedora-testing Repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/
>  > #Add to /etc/yum.conf
>  > [updates-testing]
>  > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Test Updates
>  > baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/7/i386/
>  > enabled=0
>  > gpgcheck=1
>  >
>  > 3) Run the command
>  > [root at ipa yum.repos.d]# yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install ipa-server
>  > Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
>  > Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>  > Loading "security" plugin
>  > Setting up Install Process
>  > Setting up repositories
>  > rhel-i386-server-5        100% |=========================| 1.4 kB    00:00
>  > Reading repository metadata in from local files
>  > Parsing package install arguments
>  > Resolving Dependencies
>  > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
>  > ---> Package ipa-server.i386 0:0.99-12.fc7 set to be updated
>  > --> Running transaction check
>  > --> Processing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.5 for package: ipa-server
>  > --> Processing Dependency: python-pyasn1 for package: ipa-server
>  > [snipped, full output below]
>  > --> Processing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.5 for package: ipa-client
>  > --> Processing Dependency: fedora-ds-base >= 1.1 for package: ipa-server
>  > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>  > Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by package ipa-server
>  > Error: Missing Dependency: python-pyasn1 is needed by package ipa-server
>  > Error: Missing Dependency: python-krbV is needed by package ipa-server
>  > Error: Missing Dependency: krb5-server-ldap is needed by package ipa-server
>  > Error: Missing Dependency: TurboGears is needed by package ipa-server
>  > Error: Missing Dependency: python-tgexpandingformwidget is needed by
>  > package ipa-server
>  > Error: Missing Dependency: fedora-ds-base >= 1.1 is needed by package ipa-server
>  > Error: Missing Dependency: mod_nss >= 1.0.7-2 is needed by package ipa-server
>  > Error: Missing Dependency: python-kerberos is needed by package ipa-python
>  > Error: Missing Dependency: python-krbV is needed by package ipa-admintools
>  > Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by package ipa-python
>  > Error: Missing Dependency: python-krbV is needed by package ipa-client
>  > Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by package ipa-client
>  >
>  > Can anyone point me in the right direction here?
>
>  F7 packages are not directly compatible with RHEL5, I think some of the
>  python packages are available in EPEL, most other stuff need to be
>  rebuilt from source rpms to make it work on RHEL5, including the
>  kerberos package as we enabled a new subpackage (krb5-server-ldap) in
>  the spec file that is not normally available in RHEL5.
>
>  Simo.
>
>  --
>  Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York
>
>



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Alex Davies

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